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"Di Stefano starts with absolute perfection in arias from Mignon, Manon, L'Arlesiana, and La traviata, we hear a sound and delivery so absolutely natural that it makes us wonder why we can't do it ourselves." —Classics Today
#5290653
Performer(s): Raffaele Arie, Maria Callas, Anna Maria Canali, Herbert Dawson,, etc...
Conductor(s): Alberto Erede, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Herbert von Karajan, Dino, etc...
Ensembles(s): La Scala Theater Chorus, La Scala Theater Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 151:29
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One of the greatest performances of Domingo's career. -The Rough Guide to Classical Music
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Performer(s): Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Plácido Domingo, Philippe Duminy, Denyce, etc...
Conductor(s): Myung-Whun Chung
Ensembles(s): Bastille Opera Orchestra, Paris National Opera Boys' Choir
Label: DG Deutsche Grammopho
Number of Discs: 2
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"Beethoven has no peer. His single opera has a unique appeal, and a magic very much of its own — especially in its first version, the Lenore of 1805, where his ideas ... are at their most radical." —John Eliot Gardiner
#5277552
Performer(s): Kim Begley, Matthew Best, Robert Burt, Colin Campbell, Ruth Crouch,, etc...
Conductor(s): John Eliot Gardiner
Ensembles(s): Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Label: DG Archiv / Polygram
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 137:44
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"A very beautiful opera ... always engaging and, at times, captivating." —ClassicsToday.com
#5269409
Performer(s): Carlos Alvarez, Felipe Bou, Carlos Chausson, Plácido Domingo, Jane, etc...
Conductor(s): Jonathan Alder, José de Eusebio
Ensembles(s): Madrid Community Choir, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 135:59
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#5277972
Performer(s): John Constable, Franz Haselbock, Volker Lutz, Martin Schirrmeister,, etc...
Conductor(s): Iona Brown, Charles Mackerras, Neville Marriner, Pál Németh, Helmuth Rilling
Ensembles(s): Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Capella Savaria, Collegium Musica Rara Stuttgart
Label: Haenssler
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 111:49
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Rudel conducted with strength and unfailingly intelligent choice of tempos. -The New York Times
#5284820
Performer(s): Thomas Allen, Heather Begg, David Bell, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido, etc...
Conductor(s): Russell Burgess, Julius Rudel
Ensembles(s): Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 137:55
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#5278917
Performer(s): Thomas Allen, Géza Anda, Francisco Araiza, Olaf Bär, Agnes Baltsa,, etc...
Conductor(s): Claudio Abbado, Géza Anda, Karl Böhm, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus, etc...
Ensembles(s): Academy of Ancient Music, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
Label: Decca / Universal Dis
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 151:10
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"There is only one word to describe this compilation of varied works by soprano Kiri Te Kanawa: Elegant! She is a soprano with depth and a cultured delivery that wraps every note in any range with the delicacy of a mother's loving embrace. It just doesn't get any better than this." —OperaOnline.us
#5287470
Performer(s): Olaf Bär, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, José Carreras, Olga Hegedus,, etc...
Conductor(s): Stephen Barlow, Richard Bonynge, Riccardo Chailly, Carl Davis, Colin, etc...
Ensembles(s): Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Bologna Community Theater Orchestra
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 148:13
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#5284017
Performer(s): Carlo Bergonzi, Jussi Björling, Ian Bostridge, Stuart Burrows, José, etc...
Conductor(s): Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Richard Bonynge,, etc...
Ensembles(s): Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, John Alldis Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: DG Deutsche Grammopho
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 152:50
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#5285356
Performer(s): June Anderson, Kathleen Battle, Montserrat Caballé, Fernanda Cadoni,, etc...
Conductor(s): Roberto Abbado, Kurt Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Franco Capuana, Colin, etc...
Ensembles(s): Academy of Ancient Music, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus
Label: DG Deutsche Grammopho
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 150:48
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#8008917
Performer(s): Herbert Alsen, Walter Berry, Franz Bierbach, Hans Braun, Rudolf Christ,, etc...
Conductor(s): Clemens Krauss
Ensembles(s): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 101:27
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"The sound is both rich and atmospheric and is made to seem even firmer in its current remastering, giving great power to Karajan’s uniquely taut account of the four-act version." —Penguin Guide
#5347431
Performer(s): Agnes Baltsa, Piero Cappuccilli, José Carreras, José van Dam, Mirella, etc...
Conductor(s): Herbert von Karajan
Ensembles(s): Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutschen Opernchor Berlin
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 3
Total time: 181:18
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"Movingly dramatic as Renata Scotto is on both the Maazel version and the LP reissue of the Barbirolli/EMI set, Mirella Freni is even more compelling. The voice is fresher, firmer and more girlish, with more light and shade at such points ... and there is an element of vulnerability that intensifies the communication." —Gramophone
#5331966
Performer(s): Mirella Freni, Siegfried Rudolf Frese, Martha Heigl, Hans Helm,, etc...
Conductor(s): Herbert von Karajan
Ensembles(s): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus
Label: London
Number of Discs: 3
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"If I am remembered for anything it will be, of course, for my Manon." —Beverly Sills
#5378970
Performer(s): Gabriel Bacquier, Nico Castel, Nicolai Gedda, Patricia Kern, Michele, etc...
Conductor(s): Julius Rudel
Ensembles(s): Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra
Label: DG Deutsche Grammopho
Number of Discs: 3
Total time: 188:34
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#8015310
Performer(s): Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Maldwyn Davies, Jane Findlay, Michael, etc...
Conductor(s): John Eliot Gardiner
Ensembles(s): English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Label: Warner Classics UK
Number of Discs: 6
Total time: 342:03
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"I can't live without Jon Vickers' Tristan — it is so full of conflict, desire, loyalty, joy and despair, and he uses every color in his vocal palette, that one can't help being touched, indeed overwhelmed ... the Berlin forces are semi-divine. A real matter of taste." —Robert Levine, Classics Today
#5446235
Performer(s): Walter Berry, Helga Dernesch, Christa Ludwig, Karl Ridderbusch, Peter, etc...
Conductor(s): Walter Hagen-Groll, Herbert von Karajan
Ensembles(s): Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Chorus
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 4
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"[Kiri has] always been the possessor of a creamy, beautiful, unforced voice, utterly even from top to bottom, capable of fine dynamic shading." —Classics Today
#5188970
Performer(s): Malvina Major, Helen Medlyn, Simon O'Neill, Edward Scorgie, Kiri Te Kanawa
Conductor(s): Brian Law, Julian Reynolds
Ensembles(s): Auckland Orchestra, Opera Factory Ensemble
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 78:43
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#5258420
Performer(s): Franco Corelli, Piero de Palma, Stefania Malagu, Dino Mantovani,, etc...
Conductor(s): Gabriele Santini
Ensembles(s): Rome Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Label: EMI Music Distributio
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Highly recommended. -Christmas Magazine
#5281476
Performer(s): Robin Barter, Ian Bostridge, David Briggs, Elinor Carter, Stephen, etc...
Conductor(s): Kurt Adler, Richard Bonynge, Stephen Cleobury, Carl Davis, Colin Davis,, etc...
Ensembles(s): Academy & Choir of St. Martin in the Fields, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 151:56
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"Solti's is an exceptionally colourful and robust reading of Puccini's great melodrama, recorded with all the vividness of modern digital sound, featuring a heroine whose star quality today is unquestionable." —Gramophone
#8010360
Performer(s): Giacomo Aragall, Nicholas Folwell, Paul Hudson, Malcolm King, Spiro, etc...
Conductor(s): Georg Solti
Ensembles(s): Children of the Royal Opera, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Chorus
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 113:57
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